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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OnlineDM" data-source="post: 5288747" data-attributes="member: 90804">Original poster here.  The replies to this thread have been illuminating - thank you all for your input!  I like the idea of a poll, although I feel like we have a pretty good idea of the results just from following this thread.It looks like nearly everyone is open about their gaming to close friends and family, and the question of being open to co-workers is pretty well split between those who game with their colleagues/discuss gaming openly and those who make no effort to bring it up, mixed with a little bit of "I actively hide my gaming from my colleagues."  I feel better - I'm not the only one who feels like bringing up my gaming to my colleagues could be a bad idea for my career.That said, I'm happy to report that I've taken the first tentative step out of the RPG closet today.  In an email exchange with a co-worker I mentioned being a nerd (in a non-gaming context) and she commented that she's a bigger nerd than I am.  I told her that she didn't know who she was messing with, and that the players in my Dungeons and Dragons campaign would have a thing or two to say about that (clarifying that this was not a joke).Ah, it feels liberating to show a little bit of my true colors! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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